17. This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jewish and Greek people. Fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Yeshua was being magnified.
18. Many also of those who had believed came confessing and recounting their practices.
19. And many of those who practiced magic arts brought their books together in a heap, burning them before everyone. They totaled the value of the books and found it to be about fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20. So the word of the Lord was growing in power and prevailing.
21. Now after these things were accomplished, Paul resolved in the Ruach to go to Jerusalem after passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22. So after sending two who were assisting him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.